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VoidTrecker Express Mods ([personal profile] voidtreckermods) wrote in [community profile] middleofsomewhere2021-04-10 06:25 am

The Endless River

On the morning of day twenty one of the month of Kazoo there is a message on the ICP screens around the train. Their SCA's will light up the colour of the Void and show the following information.

World #398050 is a void nexus known locally as Tshering. As a void nexus this world has strong links with the void and the connection through worlds. World #398050 is home to the Endless River. Legends speak of this river being powerful enough to send thoughts from one heart to another across any distance. All that is needed is for you to know who it is you wish to reach.


On-board

The dressing carriage is open, filled with clothing best suited to a pleasant spring day. Light, airy and in a rainbow of joyful colours and florals. One closet is entirely filled with wide-brimmed hats bedecked with ribbons, feathers and ornaments. A stack of picnic baskets and containers filled with an alarming variety of passenger-suitable foodstuffs and flasked drinks sits in one corner, next to rolls of thick, weatherproof blankets in the four team colours.

The large box marked Do Not Use Yet, filled with small, empty jute bags, is hopefully still sat in the Luggage carriage, ready for passengers to grab handfuls of its contents as directed by the announcement.

Upon landing (after an appropriate countdown), the train remains on the surface, its carriages partially curved to form a gathering site for the day. Welcome to Tshering, the eighth void nexus!



A Day for Picnics

Tshering, system #398050, is a strange place, only habitable by grace of the passengers' SCAs. The sky is shot through with colours, a cascade of sunsets, and through it, the void shimmering through it in seams like a child's painting of the milky way. Still, there's a beauty to the chaotic mash of colours that soaks through its landscape, and in the shelter of the forests of towering funghi that dot its surface, the Void can go unseen by its visitors.

The temperature seems mild, suitable for the provided clothing, and if there are weather patterns around the world they've taken the day off. The funghi are sturdy enough that what air flow there is doesn't disturb their stalks, and carved grooves and holds in some of the larger examples indicate that climbing them to sit atop their glowing crowns is eminently possible, and, in fact, encouraged.

the Endless River

The Endless River is a font of pure chaos, flowing from a multitude of small rivulets across the area to a central reservoir, from which it pours directly upwards, away from Tshering's surface and out of sight, beyond the world's atmosphere.

Anything bagged and placed within the Endless River will also flow upwards and soon be out of sight, passing, presumably, into the Void. Scattered across the surface of Tshering are small, glittering pebbles, as described in the announcement.

The stones are pleasantly cool to the touch, and all passengers need to do is feel. Messages can be in any form that the Voidtreckers wish. Perhaps words, perhaps feelings, perhaps an image from their mind into the stone. Perhaps a mixture. Once they begin their message the stone will glow slightly and continue to glow as they secure it in the bag and cast it into the river. They will feel, almost instinctively, that they need to focus as they do so, thinking of the person they wish to reach all the while.

There are plenty of bags and many more stones; passengers will not be limited in their sendings.
foxyou: (fox)

picnic

[personal profile] foxyou 2021-04-13 12:51 pm (UTC)(link)
What's this? A man distracted by the beauty of the great outdoors? And here is Jiu, four-footed and peckish from running wild around the forest.

Surely no one will notice if a very tiny foxlet pokes his head in the basket, right? Just gotta be reeeaaal quiet. Yes.
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[personal profile] lucklessgege 2021-04-14 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
Xie Lian senses a little something getting close to his food and turns slightly, not wanting to frighten the thing away. He smiles, knowing that the food inside the basket is at least edible. He didn't make it and so everything in there is safe for the little fox.

Softly, "Don't take too much. You'll get a stomach ache."
foxyou: (too cool for school)

[personal profile] foxyou 2021-04-18 07:02 pm (UTC)(link)
The fox freezes when it's caught, ears tilting slightly back in...possibly wariness, maybe something else. Either way, having been given the go ahead, it hesitates only a moment before throwing aside any pretense of stealth and shoving its head in the basket with an annoyed huff and reemerging with a sandwich in its mouth.

This sandwich! Is fox property now!! It's gonna move a few feet away before settling down to eat, for proper social distancing.
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[personal profile] lucklessgege 2021-04-19 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
He smiles as he settles down on the blanket and opens the basket to pull out his own meal. "I'm not sure who made them but they certainly look good." Not that Xie Lian is particularly hungry but since he now has a companion for his picnic he might as well enjoy it.

He doesn't know if this is a fox of this world or one of the passengers but he is happy to share either way.
foxyou: (fox yum)

[personal profile] foxyou 2021-04-20 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
The fox - which is definitely not a person and therefore does not need to have shame - eats its sandwich with relish, happy to offer the vague companionship of its distant presence in exchange. It even sneaks back again once the sandwich is gone, peeking into the basket with a little less caution than before, and coming back up with a tasty chicken leg. Can foxes eat barbecue? This one can, surely.
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[personal profile] lucklessgege 2021-04-23 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
He is happy to share as much of the picnic as the fox could possible want. Xie Lian doesn't eat much and he is just content to have companionship while he eats. Plus the creature seems to be enjoying the food which means it isn't going to go to waste.

"At least we have a nice day so that we can enjoy eating outside." Much better then eating inside on the train every day.